Example sentences of "[coord] took [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel now that if everybody looked after their own surroundings or took more notice of what 's going on immediately around them , the world might be a better place … ‘ |
| 2 | Dexter detected a glimmer of pleasure , as if the man felt instinctive sympathy for Lancaster and took personal satisfaction in thwarting the police . |
| 3 | The verderers hurried along the forest path and took little notice of Marian . |
| 4 | Her family did not much understand gardening either , and took little pleasure in the fruit of their unskilled , social labours ; as far back as she could remember , Clara could recollect her mother 's perpetual nagging at her father to cut the lawn , her father 's occasional outburst of resentment against the boys who trampled on the borders . |
| 5 | Protestant commentators were very aware that the papacy retained the right to depose excommunicated rulers , and took little comfort from the fact that many English recusants had taken a special oath of allegiance to the crown . |
| 6 | On occasion , distinguished local people such as Lord Brooks were landlords , at other times the owners were quite remote and took little interest in their holdings . |
| 7 | Creatures that correctly recognized the implications of data gathered by their sense organs and took appropriate action would be more likely to survive and reproduce . |
| 8 | On 9 April , the British Third Army , under Lieutenant-General Sir Edmund Allenby , attacked at Arras , while farther north the Canadian Corps stormed and took Vimy Ridge . |
| 9 | However , in spite of expert advice the new melon seedlings at Selborne did not flourish and so on 23 June 1750 , as his Kalendar recalls , Gilbert White called on Miller at Chelsea and took due note of the correct procedure . |
| 10 | The former were patient , they set small goals they could meet , stuck to their personally-devised diet plans and took regular exercise . |
| 11 | Last year , for the first time , it produced more computers than Hitachi , and took second place in the field to Fujitsu . |
| 12 | At the finish it was Mike Edwards from Wigan who presented the major threat and took second place . |
| 13 | Each image was comprised of 128×128 pixels and took 128 msec to take . |
| 14 | This includes the comment under 1028 that Cnut drove Olaf from Norway and took that country , the entry on his return to England in 1029 , and that on Olaf 's death at the hands of his countrymen in 1030 . |
| 15 | There may be ten of us on Scotland Place on a Saturday night when the Morning Star got chucked out and the licensee was a feller called Pat McEwen ( he had a marine store dealer 's in Chaucer Street and took that pub ) . |
| 16 | In a brief account of her life Collier describes her education at her parents ' hands : ‘ I was taught to read when very Young , and took great delight in it ; but my Mother dying , I lost my Education , Never being put to School . ’ |
| 17 | He has a large number of good qualities and very few bad ones ; George is very kind and caring and took great care over Lennie . |
| 18 | During his visit he was briefed on the work of the Association by the Financial Secratary Sam Churchman and Mrs Wyatt , and took great interest in the Welfare work that we do . |
| 19 | I love being in France and I recently bought an old barn there and took great pleasure in rebuilding it and making a garden . |
| 20 | Only 100 or so family and close friends were at the graveside , visible from the garden of the family home , to hear the Rev Russell McLarty of St Paul 's Church , Provanmill , say that Arthur Thompson 's children wanted their father to be remembered as a kind and generous man who loved life and took great pleasure from his family and grandchildren . |
| 21 | announced her resignation as Society Chairman as from the AGM and took great pleasure in introducing as next Society Chairman and as Vice-Chairman , she was sure they would make a good team and wished them every success in the future . |
| 22 | Rachel was undeniably wonderful with the baby ; and took such joy from having Maggie with her that it was impossible for even Phoebe to feel much guilt about the times when she was free . |
| 23 | He raised his head slightly and took cautious stock . |
| 24 | The shaikh Abdulrahman bu Riziq represented the rejectionist horn : he lived in the desert where an Italian policeman had been murdered , and took sardonic comfort from the reminder . |
| 25 | He settled in Paris in style and took French citizenship in 1908 . |
| 26 | He regretted that many major Scottish companies shifted their headquarters to London , and took quiet pride that Scottish & Newcastle attracted high-flying executives from England — and that it was still run from an office almost in the shadow of Holyroodhouse . |
| 27 | Taking a deep breath , she managed a cool smile up at the enigmatic face above her , and took brutal control of her wayward emotions . |
| 28 | He had a deep contempt for the bureaucratic mind and took particular delight in circumventing bureaucratic obstruction . |
| 29 | In the final , Royston and Cawkell settled quickly and took full advantage of their five-point start to take the first game 15–5 . |
| 30 | The BMC now re-affirmed its commitment to training and took full responsibility for all training matters in the mountaineering , apart from the Mountainwalking Leader Scheme , which the MLTB continued to run . |